Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

Andrew Hipp of The Morton Arboretum will deliver the ASPT Incoming Presidents' Talk at #Botany2025! 🌿

To learn more about his career, publications, and public and educational outreach, visit: www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html

Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years.

Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual #herbaria from openly available specimen images

New in #AppsPlantSci by @tvasconcelos.bsky.social & @jboyko.bsky.social

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @r-foundation.bsky.social @gbif.org #botany #biodiversity #iamabotanist

Excited to start this new phase for our MICH herbarium and to work on implementing our 2025-2030 strategic plan! 😄🌿🌾🍁🌎

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹

Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

The botanists are inviting YOU to Plantsgiving 🌱 On Thurs we'll be documenting the plant species in our Thanksgiving meals, and we'd love it if you do, too! Follow along & join in using #Plantsgiving 🌱 THANKYOU @martinebotany.bsky.social for starting this wonderful tradition!

#plantscience #botany

Agnes Dellinger: Unlocking Flowers’ Secrets
https://botany.fyi/mp5z38

@caordonezparra.bsky.social interviews Dr. Agnes Dellinger to learn more about how she became interested in the interaction between plants and pollinators.

#Botany #PlantScience

I wrote this about finding the optimal discrete character model structure. I hope this will be useful for empiricists. The main point is that relying only on the package default models is bad and can have nasty consequences or parameter estimates and ASR.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm building a Starter Pack of Early Career Evolutionary Biologists. It's hard to gather usernames using the search tool. Please add your name to this thread if you want to be added!

Herbaria and herbarium peeps starter pack! Not exhaustive; tell me who else to add.

go.bsky.app/J3orEaP